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Gregory Winfield

Provides strategic legal advice with respect to retirement, health & welfare and other compensation plans. Recent focuses are on investments, DB plan freezes and innovative plan designs, governance and changes to retiree benefits. Advises on the treatment of benefit plans in M&A transactions, lending transactions and insolvencies; advises on private and public sector pension plans. Experience in litigating matters before pension regulatory authorities and provides pension expertise to McCarthy litigation team in pension class proceedings. Represented employer in connection with nation’s first Employee Life and Health Trust. Frequent speaker and writer on benefits topics, including Canadian contributor to first UNEP FI paper on ESG for Institutional Investors. · McCarthy Tétrault

CanadaPensions & Benefits, Mergers & Acquisitions

About

Gregory Winfield provides strategic legal advice on retirement, health & welfare and other compensation plans, with recent focuses on investments, defined benefit plan freezes, innovative plan designs, governance and changes to retiree benefits, and on the treatment of benefit plans in M&A, lending and insolvency matters for private and public sector pension plans. He has litigated before pension regulatory authorities, represented an employer in the nation’s first Employee Life and Health Trust, is a frequent speaker and writer on benefits topics (including as the Canadian contributor to the first UNEP FI paper on ESG for Institutional Investors) and is a member of FSRA’s Technical Advisory Committee for Asset Transfers.

Practice areas

Pensions & BenefitsMergers & AcquisitionsInsolvency & RestructuringBanking & FinanceLitigationESG / Sustainable Investing

Office

Expertise

Defined Benefit Plan FreezesEmployee Life and Health TrustsPension Regulatory LitigationPublic and Private Sector PensionsBenefit Plan Treatment in M&A, Lending & InsolvencyPlan Governance & InvestmentsESG for Institutional Investors

Admissions

  • Ontario, 1988.